From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4104 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document. Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:08:36 -0800 Organization: __________ Message-ID: <871xh1wyd7.fld@barrow.com> References: <3d6111f1.0409161437.30ef8b7d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670099 21830 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:14:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:14:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:14 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.editors,comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: gnus 5.10.6/XEmacs 21.4.15/Linux 2.6.5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:h8nNyp1H4g8vxVMp7olYy2Yo+S8= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.124.156.201 Original-X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1095379824 209.124.156.201 (Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:10:24 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:10:24 EDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4245 Original-Lines: 15 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4245 Tue Jan 17 17:33:14 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4104 Archived-At: mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com (Mike Cox) wrote: >Much to my dismay, as I was working on my very long review (about 100 >pages typed), xemacs core dumped on me. I was unable to recover >anything. I didn't save my document because I never expected emacs to Looks like a troll to me. How many people type in 100 pages of text without an interuption that results in a saved file? Regardless, anyone who does that kind of typing is a fool not to have enabled autosave, just in case the power fails, the cpu burns up, the police knock at the door, or whatever. -- FloydL. Davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com